This photo is from the state archives - this young woman is a weaver at Black Mountain College in the 1940s.
As fascinating as that is, what's really interesting is what people are knitting. One woman in my session was knitting lovely creamy wool socks. Another woman was making a baby hat - very tiny! I'm knitting the Mossy Cardi - again or still -whatever you want to call it. It's all the way up to 5 inches long so it's almost as long as it was when I frogged it last time.
In the evenings I've been working on a couple of new hat patterns. No details yet, but there is a bit of a time crunch. My friend Lisa (of Friends and Fiberworks) will e a vendor at Stitches South in Mid-April and wants some easy one skien patterns that are yarn-specific. She wants to sell the patterns for yarns that she has a good bit of. So my task is to develop patterns for these yarns that are reasonably easy to knit and don't exist yet. Two have come out nicely. The third is really giving me trouble. The pattern that she visualized does really work with the pattern. I kind of knew that, but I sometimes try to give people what they want. I think I'll leave it where it is and ask her to take a look at it before I go any farther.
Although I am certainly ready to go home, I kind of like the out-of-time feeling of being at a conference. Staying in a hotel, eating in restaurants, seeing people that you seldom see in 'real life.' But the 3 hour trip home should be pleasant. I am listening to 'The Knitting Circle' by Ann Hood. Highly emotional and a wee bit melodramatic, it's a good travel 'listen.'
My biggest decision for the drive home, where shall I eat lunch?
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